Localised timezones

[johndrinkwater]

I find it pretty weird reading dates and times which aren't localised to my own. Would be a nice user option. Heck, I'm not even sure what timezone is picked, it doesn't declare itself.

Is there a Trac module to cover this?

[wkornewald]

I would also be happier about a simple YYYY-MM-DD (2006-06-21) date formatting. I hate the mixed MM/DD/YY formatting.

[johndrinkwater]

wkornewald - i'm all for that (21/06/2006 is my native ;)), but how does that appeal to international users here?

[wkornewald]

There is a ticket for this on the original Trac:

​http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/1690

It looks like dates always use the system's locale setting.

[charlie x]

It should be possible to get the locale from the browser and use that.

[charlie x]

The functions in util.datefmt.py can easily be overwritten either to enforce 8601 formatting (YYYY-MM-DD) or even extend to take user preference into account or even browser setting.

[wkornewald]

I think that enforcing YYYY-MM-DD should be good enough.

[charlie x]

Okay, then you can either pass format='iso8601' into every call to format_date* or better still make this the default argument.

[nielx]

This is going to be addressed in Trac 0.11. It's probably a good idea to wait for this revision.

[nielx]

Accept this to keep track.

[nielx]

Marking as fixed, since it is implemented in Trac 0.11.